Benedict Jacka (born September 25, 1980) is a British author, best known for his Alex Verus series.
[1] Jacka was born in England and attended the City of London School.
He later attended Cambridge University, where he graduated with a Bachelors in philosophy and met his editor Sophie Hicks from Ed Victor Ltd.[2] His first novels were three children's fantasy novels that didn’t get published, followed by To Be A Ninja (later changed to Ninja: The Beginning), a children's non-fantasy novel, which was.
In 2000 he began working on a fantasy setting with teenage elementals, for which he wrote four unpublished novels.
[8][9] SF Crowsnest gave an overall positive review for Cursed, while stating it was "an enjoyable, if unchallenging, read".